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WV1960/2024

 

THE LION OF MUGELLO

Gastone Nencini (1930 -1980) was an Italian cyclist with a professional career from 1953 to 1965.

Nencini won the final victory in both the Tour de France 1960 and the Giro d'Italia 1957. As a very good climber and descender, he also won the mountain classification in both cycling races. In the Tour of Italy he won a total of seven stage victories and in the Tour de France he was successful in a stage four times.

He was nicknamed "The Lion of Mugello", after his birthplace. Nencini, who was a chain smoker, was also an amateur painter.

WV1292

2008 (2014 version)

 

Holidays in Hollywood...

 

Ink on $teinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

SLEEPING WITH THE PAST

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Sacrifice

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1989

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It's a human sign

When things go wrong

When the scent of her lingers

And temptation's strong

  

Into the boundary

Of each married man

Sweet deceit comes calling

And negativity lands

  

Cold cold heart

Hard done by you

Some things look better baby

Just passing through

  

And it's no sacrifice

Just a simple word

It's two hearts living

In two separate worlds

But it's no sacrifice

No sacrifice

It's no sacrifice at all

  

Mutual misunderstanding

After the fact

Sensitivity builds a prison

In the final act

  

We lose direction

No stone unturned

No tears to damn you

When jealousy burns

WV1767

2012

B

 

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

Early ms. marginal sketch of an animal (a dog?).

 

Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-1004 Folio

All images from this book

Penn Libraries catalog record

Watercolour and ink on A4 paper

Tractor with parasol in Sawmill in Hirsau, Baden-Württemberg. May 2026

I forgot my stool so I used a log and sat in the road. Luckily, the cars drove around me.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

VICTIM OF LOVE

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Johnny B Goode

Music & lyrics by Chuck Berry

Disco cover by Elton John 1979

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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans

Way back up in the woods among the evergreens

There stood an log cabin made of earth and wood

Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode

Who never learned to read or write so well

But he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell

  

Go go

Go Johnny go go go

Go Johnny go go go

Go Johnny go go go

Go Johnny go go go

Go go Johnny B. Goode

  

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

Sat beneath the tree by the railroad track

An engineer could see him sitting in the shade

Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made

The People passing by, they would stop and say

Oh my, how that little country boy could play

  

His mother told him, someday you will be a man

You will be the leader of a big old band

Many people coming from miles around

To hear you play your music when the sun goes down

And maybe someday your name will be in lights

Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight

Page 1 of my 2014 International Fake Journal Month journal.

 

Here's a link to Perry Mason's theme song on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqebO8aAc4

 

Micron Pigma ink, Daniel Smith watercolors, ink jet printed text and label, in a hand bound 5x5 accordion-fold journal made from Strathmore 500 series paper and various watercolor paper scraps.

 

For more information about IFJM: officialinternationalfakejournalblog.blogspot.com

Ink Test Tree ~ De Atramentis - Rose Red (a delicately scented ink I might add)

#123 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Staring down a cold that is trying to get a hold of me...bit of a wheeze in my chest.. So...I got to thinking what that could look like

 

Result: Curious flow

 

Materials: Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Faber Castell PITT brush pens in a Stillman & Birn Gamma series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

 

Location: Home

 

Note: Behold! My breathing is like a beaded curtain! The mind is definitely outside the box today...and I haven't even taken any cold meds yet <.<

Pen drawing of a fantasy figure that seems to repeat itself in my work Just like our lives sometimes we feel like a catepillar and sometimes we emerge into a butterfly. It all begins with our thoughts about ourselves and who we are and the deeds we do to help humanity.

  

#321 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Islay, Scotland

 

Result: Day 16

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

 

Location: Hotel in Bowmore on Islay, Scotland

 

Note: love learning about scotch ...in Scotland.

 

WV1758/2012

Ink and gouache on Steinbach paper

 

"You're a cool little one

My dark southern breeze

Sweeps through my fingers

And it amazes me

 

Dixie shadowland

Your envy shelters me

Lay down your burden

Mystery of ebony

 

And it amazes me

Oh it amazes me

Maybe the heat babe could be this tune

It amazes me

It amazes me

What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon

 

Look up that pale light

Well she's waking the trees

I'm drifting in your hoodoo

And it amazes me

 

That magnolia state

Got a hold on me

I got no blues to preach

Just Mississippi company

 

Ain't no magic potion

No gri-gri on her side

She's bound to my salvation

Sweet little mama

Take me down by the river tonight

And it amazes me..."

 

AMAZES ME - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1989.

WV1536

2010

AZ

 

"Just for today

I could try to live through this day only

Not deal with all life's problems

Just for today..."

 

(George Harrison lyrics)

  

Ink and coloured pencil on $teinbach paper

  

I drew this indoors as it was raining, resting my sketch book on the emergency exit door bar. Security politely asked me to move away.

#319 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Scotland

 

Result: Day 14

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

 

Location: B&B in Tarbert

 

Note: ... the scanner really hiccuped on this one...the colours are very subtle. THIS image is about us getting used to driving on the other side of the road again...traumatic like usual. Much writing to be added below the illustration...

#243 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Image of Chipa with scarf + cat

 

Result: Chipa Neko

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2” x 11”)

 

Location: Home

 

Note: The temperature has done a real turn around from Monday, so off goes the A/C and on goes the furnace. Frost tonight. Just brrr. So it’s perfect timing to be inspired by this Harajuku regular, Chipa & her wonderful blue/green hair. Blue cat’s are on my brain this week :3

 

...also, I wanted to work on creating depth with the scarf/hair. ;)

2008

Ink with color marker on paper

3.5x4.5 inches

SOLD

 

As an exercise in discipline and productivity, I began doing little sketches in a Strathmore pocket sketchpad. This one is another of my favorite objects to sketch: the old fashioned Coca Cola bottle. Such a classic shape and even better Warhol made it more famous. Not to mention my feelings of obligation to draw something from the same state as me.

#316 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Dublin

 

Result: Day 10

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

 

Location: B&B Dublin

 

Note: Hubby had a list of OLD pubs he wanted to stand at the bar and drink a Guinness in. That...is pretty much what we did in Dublin.

Watercolour and ink on paper

#246 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: cats + origami + cold meds

 

Result: Nekogami / orineko

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

 

Location: Home

 

Note: I blame this entirely on the decongestant medication I am taking for my head cold.

  

Having some quiet time with pen and paper.

WV1738

2011

 

"And she's a habit I can't handle

For a reason I can't say

I'm in love with a wild white lady

She's as sweet as the stories say

White powder white lady

You're one and the same

Come on down to my house won't you

And hit this boy again!"

 

(Elton John/ Bernie Taupin, "21 at 33", 1980)

 

Ink on $teinbach paper

Drawn entirely with patterns I've never, or very rarely, used before

#228 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Currently planning my summer holiday

 

Result: Places I want to get cozy with.

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

 

Location: Home

 

Note: This summer I will be packing up my sketchbook & drawing things for a 3 week trip. Tickets are booked & the serious planning is underway. Dublin will be just a 36 hour pub crawl..I mean layover, sandwiched between Spain & Scotland. The latter I've been wanting to explore more of ( Islay) and Barcelona is on my bucket list. Good times are on the to do list :D

Inks: Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun calligraphy & DeAtramentis Document Fuschia

WV1310

2009

AZ

 

La chanteuse qui a tout donné...

 

Ink on $teinbach paper

WV1786

2013

B

 

""Ooh yeah you're amazing

We think you are really cool

We'd give you a part my love

But you'd have to play the fool"

 

(Kater Bush lyrics)

 

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

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